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THE COMMON THREAD BR>Re: Friday's edition of Spectator.org : p>As I read through the various articles on Friday's menu, I was tempted to write in response to several of them. As usual, I resisted the temptation until I had finished perusing the entire slate of offerings. It was then that I seemed to detect a common thread running through the lot of them. p>The thread that I detected is that America is no more. Oh, there is still a land mass with a significant population in the geographical place the we used to call America, but America is gone. The articles of belief and principles of government upon which this once great country was founded, are not only no longer cherished by a majority of the populace, they are actively derided and declared evil. p>Mr. Orlet makes a convincing case for the notion that the United States and it's citizens are reviled in just about every corner of the world, even though we have spent huge amounts of our blood and treasure to help these same nations and peoples. But most importantly, Mr. Orlet makes a convincing case for the proposition that the majority of our own citizens now look on our leaders as antagonistic to their beliefs and interests. If I were Ann Coulter, I would aver that we have become a nation of wimpy little appeasing cowards with the attention spans of a two year old spoiled brat. Entirely too many of our citizens consider it too difficult and painful to smack the bullies upside the head with a 2X4 and force them to go pick on someone else. p>Mr. Newman next takes up the gauntlet and discusses Mr. Sullivan's crusade to totally redefine Christianity and to orchestrate a set of rules that will remove the entire body of traditional Christian religion and principles from our public spaces. (And probably private also as the next step.) Folks, like it or not, America was founded as a Christian nation that consciously would allow the adherents of any other religion extant in the world to worship according to their own rules and practices within our borders. Regardless of the new history, all of our founding fathers were non-pacifist Christians. America was birthed and baptized in the blood of revolution and war. Many of those that took up arms were non-Christians that came on board because of their soon to be right to worship in their own way. Nevertheless, no one would have seriously considered the possibility of banning Christianity from the public square. And yes, that does include the moral codes that formed the basis of the Judeo-Christian Bible. p>Next, Mr. Hogberg discusses the attempt by a craft union, the American Medical Association, to convince the federal government to force, yes force, our citizens to spend their own legally earned money in a particular way that would benefit the membership of said union. The scary thing is that we have one of the two large political parties that favors this very proposal, and some in the other party that do also. We also have respectable, supposedly, groups telling us what we should eat in order that we shall weigh what they think we should weigh. These same groups demonize parents that dare to feed their own children in a manner that the food fanatics do not approve. Other groups have succeeded in forcing the secession of usage of a legal product (tobacco) in public, but do not have the courage to fight to get the produce declared illegal. Now the push in on to restrict the public from using the product in their own homes or cars. These same groups seem to see nothing wrong in smoking marijuana. Consistency, they do not know the concept. I could go on and on with examples of groups attempting, successfully or not, to force free adult citizens to alter, restrict, or cease legal behavior. Was America founded on the idea of a nanny state with groups of elite snobs and do-gooders telling everyone else what to do? Does no one remember the experience we had with allowing a bunch of do-gooders to tell adult Americans what they could and could not drink in the first half of the 20th Century? Has it become against the law for people to mind their own business? p>I will wrap up our tour de force with Mr. Tooley's article

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